Collection of landscape architectural drawings, 1913-1941.

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Collection of landscape architectural drawings, 1913-1941.

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Collection consists of ca. 525 architectural drawings including landscape architecture plans, contour drawings, planting diagrams and blueprints. There are also detailed drawings of fences, garden paths, outbuildings and gates. The drawings were done mostly in the 1920s and 1930s primarily for clients in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with a few for clients in Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri and North Carolina. They demonstrate the process of landscape design through the various types which are included, such as rough sketches, sketches on older blueprints, preliminary drawings, alternative drawings, final plans and final blueprints. Collection also includes photographs of a few completed projects. Some folders contain drawings by architects who designed the houses on the estates; among these are designs by R. Clipston Sturgis, Mott B. Schmidt and Leigh French among others.

525 items (76 folders)

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7682025

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Schmidt, Mott B., 1889-1977

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Mott Schmidt's projects in New York City include townhouses on Sutton Place, Dillon and Hope residences, and addition to Gracie Mansion. He also designed residences for David Milton in North Tarrytown, N.Y., and for Edgar Bronfman in Purchase, N.Y. From the description of Mott B. Schmidt architectural records and papers collection, 1920-1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505729815 ...

French, Leigh, 1894-1946

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Payson, Ellen Louise, 1894-1977.

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Ellen Louise Payson, the daughter of Edgar Robinson Payson and Harriet Estabrook Payson, was born in Portland, Maine in 1894. Known in her personal and professional life as Louise, she trained as a landscape architect at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women in Groton, Massachusetts. After graduating in 1916, she worked with landscape architect Ellen Shipman before establishing her own office in New York City in 1927. She gained widespread recognition for her designs for priva...

Sturgis, R. Clipston (Richard Clipston), 1860-1951

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